Discarded smart lightbulbs reveal your wifi passwords, stored in the clear

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[ameribbean expat]

Your smart lightbulb is probably storing your wifi password in the clear, ready to be recovered by wily dumpster-divers; Limited Results discovered the security worst-practice during a teardown of a Lifx bulb; and that's just for starters: the bulbs also store their RSA private key and root passwords in the clear and have no security measures to prevent malicious reflashings of their ROMs with exploits, network probes and other nasties.

[smartymarty]

I have one that sings “ Me and Mrs Jones,Mrs Jones...”

[Lurker]

“I grew up having to actually get up off the couch to change the channel...”

I was my dad’s remote control.

L

[doorgunner69]

OK, I admit ignoring all trendy tech stuff, but WTF is a "smart" lightbulb?

Is that like a security light that goes on at dusk when it sneses movement?

[deks]

Unforseen consequences

[dfwgator]

[T]he government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. — Friedrich Engels, 1877

Or as Donald Fagen put it:

A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young

[Cold Heart]

Can’t you just “clap off” before discarding?

[doorgunner69]

Sounds like a lightbulb for insufferable people who like to brag about their lightbulbs ... along with everything else.

Like electric car drivers and vegans?

[Jane Long]

How? Does the bulb have a usb port to access the info? How does one get the info off the bulb?

😬😂

[JennysCool]

Exactly.

[Fungi]

Should have known better.....

[Tenacious 1]

I have a chitload of incandescent 100 & 60 Watt bulbs. These things are hot on the black market. They work and are not a security threat.

100W = $2/EA

60W = $1.50/EA

Muhahaaa!

[Tenacious 1]

I was my dad’s remote control.

Me too. And I was voice activated.

[JennysCool]

THAT is a great album!

[Jamestown1630]

Me, too :-)

[Chode]

and by throwing it away it's no longer yours but public property

[PAR35]

flourescent bulbs ... I break them before throwing them away, too.

So you can blame your mental condition on the mercury that you are deliberately exposing yourself to?

[flamberge]

They can run a USB signal over your 110V ac lines to an adapter on a computer or WiFi router in your house.

What could possibly go wrong?.....

[Carriage Hill]

I save the mercury for my Rain Brain cereal.

[Carriage Hill]

Incandescant bulbs, too.

[tallyhoe]

Can you translate that into readable English? “in the clear?”

Not scrambled!